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Definition of Genus Carduelis
1. Noun. In some classifications considered the type genus of a subfamily Carduelinae of the family Fringillidae: goldfinches; siskins; redpolls; linnets.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Fringillidae, Fringillidae
Member holonyms: Carduelis Carduelis, Goldfinch, Carduelis Cannabina, Linnet, Lintwhite, Carduelis Cucullata, Red Siskin, Carduelis Flammea, Redpoll, Carduelis Hornemanni, Redpoll
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Carduelis
Literary usage of Genus Carduelis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1884)
"That was done by Boie, who, in 1822, separated the two, designating carduelis as
the type of the restricted genus Carduelis, while in 1826 the same author ..."
2. The Birds of Long Island by Jacob P. Giraud (1844)
"genus Carduelis—CUVIER. GOLDFINCH. [Bill short, stout, conic, points acute—nostrils
concealed with feathers, space between broad—head rather small, ..."
3. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1890)
"Genus CARDUELIS, Briss., ITo'O. The genus Carduelis contains the Goldfinches, of
which two species are known, one inhabiting Europe and Western Asia, ..."
4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1838)
"... been associated in the genus Carduelis; indeed the same ornithologist, in
his ' Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains,' describes and figures a ..."
5. An Introduction to the Birds of Great Britain by John Gould (1873)
"Genus CARDUELIS. A limited genus, of which our beautiful Goldfinch is the type,
and whose only associates are the Q. caniceps of the Himalayas and the C. ..."
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